Earlier this month, the National Alliance to End Homelessness released really disturbing news via their study on homeless veterans:
The report exposes a shockingly disproportionate representation of veterans among the homeless population. Veterans, who represent only 11 percent of the civilian adult population, comprise 26 percent of the homeless population, despite the fact that, as a group, they typically have a lower poverty rate than the general population.
I bet the armed forces recruiters are leaving this statistic off their list when they’re trying to recruit high school seniors to join the army. The returns on serving aren’t looking so impressive. . . either those accrued college tuition dollars and “job skills” just don’t seem to go as far as the Army would like you to think or the psychological damage of serving is so great as to render veterans unable to serve as productive members of society.
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